The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-14
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

has shipped a chain weighing twenty-five tons
for use on fivelnast lake schooner. 1t required
two cars to carry it.
THE rapidity with which railroads have beer
constructed in Japan, reciteS a local Journal is
shown by the fact that there are now $40 miles
in daily work on the island.
GOPHER tails are currency for the face value
of the county bounty-3c each-Barnes county
| Oak Newspapers take them on subscrip
ton, merchants for goods, and they occasion
ally find their way into the contribution basket
at church.
MODERN WARFARE is returning fast to the use
Of weapons which were long ago given up as
useless. The lance is being restored. Roman
| soldiers once carried Il spade; English troops
| have recently done the same. The dog has yet
to figure in a war, though the pigeon did useful
work in 1870.
| THREE APPLES, SO green and coliclly in appear
| ance that one would suppose them to have been
grown during this summer in May, were found
in the grass below an apple tree on the farm of
| John Aver, of MinOt. of Me-, where they had
lain all winter long covered by snow. There
may be hint in this for the orchardists.
| THE scaffold timbers from which John Brown
was hanged are in the possession of the Coyle
! family, of Charleston, W. Va. Coyle first
utilized them for porch, but finding that they
| were in danger of quick destruction from relic
| hunters he took down the scaffold timbers and
| put them away replacing them with ordinary
| lumber.
THERE still are wolves in Missouri, and one of
them, a big gray fellow, has been doing some
damage in Johnson county He is too fleet
| footed for the horses of hunters and has
whipped all the dogs in the neighborhood until
they are cowel The other day he freed small
boy on the way from school, and kept him freed
until the boys father came.
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day for playing an organ to the annoyance of a
gentleman living in Gloucester Terrace, Hyde
Park, London. The Magistrate said that in his
opinion more unmitigated nuisance than bar
rel organs did not exist and fined the boy 40s.
Whereupon a well-dressed lady standing in the
court room promptly paid the fine.
On Sunday before Decoration day Mr.. Hilary
Ball, of Saybrook, ILL.,, missed from his pasture
his best three-year old He fired three dyna-
mite cartridges, the signal for the assembling of
the Anti-HorSe Thief Association, and by 3
O'Clock Monday morning the association was in
pursuit At Z a. III. fifty men We're in saddle.
The horse was found in Robert Means pasture.
Thu ''Ba Trignometry classes of the Cleve-
land high schools gave themselves a picnic and
o rustic dinner the other day They had a
''chemico- mathematical menu which was
wonderful combination of chemical. mathemati-
cal and Latin terms Ice cream was put down
as ''Nocifero," and when it is explained
that ''vocifero" may be translated II scream
the hilarious character of the joke will be APP
parent
A FlRMof Birmingham (Eng.) music dealers
was required to tune an organ to accord with a
piano in Moseley 1t was impracticable to bring
the instruments together, but happy plan was
at length stumbled upon. A note of the piano
was struck in front of telephone, and the
sound was so accurately transmitted to the dis
tant tuner that ne was soon able to accomplish
his task, and the organMas sent in season for
It's intended use with the piano in a concert
In view of forthcoming troubles, all the Paris
Rothschilds have had packing cases made lined
with red morocco leather, each numbered and
labeled, and shaped to receive not only their
pictures and objects of art, but also their pre-
cious eighteenth century furniture. These cases,
numbering many hundreds, are stored in the
Rothschild houses in convenient places so that
at moments notice the objects may be packed
each in its box, and conveyed to some pl ace of
security.
HERE is the way they make sparrows useful
in Germany: Long troughs, placed at the caves
of houses, are occupied by the sparrows in
building their nests When the young are
Matched and the mother goes out to procure
food, wire screens are placed over them with
lnterstices large enough to permit the passage
of food in to the youngiings, but too small to
allow them to escape. As soon as they become
plump they are killed, and make a desirable
WHEN James Holroyd, of Waterford N. Y,
died last January, he bequeathed his property
to his fiancee Miss Bessie NJ. Mcdonald, of
Northside. But there had been q family feud
between the Holroyds and McDonalds and
WIDEN the will was read it broke out afreSh On
memorial day Miss Mcdonald decorated her
lovers grave with pillow of flowers. The
brothers of the deceased removed the flowers
and when the young woman approached the
grave again they drove her away.
THE DRUM MAJOR of West Point is a symphony
in color. Not Solomon in all his glory was ar
rayed like one of these His simplest ornament
is the nineteen rows of buttons trimming his
coat tail. The rest of him is laced frogged
Zoned, embroidered and notified with gold: he
has four giant plumeS nOdding on high and four
yards of fagree blazing on his legs; his coat is
tangle of glitter, his arms are paragons of
FURNISH and sheen, his belt is as the stars of
frostland, and the towering head of him is
furred and starred and spangled to the binding
of the sons of men.
Il KNOW how it was that Horace Greelev,s
famous advice, Young man, go West came to
be written" says Orange Judd, formerly pub
Usher of the -Anlericdn AgricuEturist 81 was
connected with the New York Tribune then and
Mr. Greeley and frequently went out to dinner
together One day, while we were at the table
he took letter from his pocket and read it to
me. 1t was from young man asking advice as
TO the best course to take in locating himself
Tell him to go out West, stake ont n claim
somewhere, and cultivate it said l: there is
where the opportunity for young men exists
now Greeley did not say much i'm response In
my suggestion. but the next day appaared in
the paper an editorial article the refrain of
which was, that expression, since so often
quoted: Young man, go West"
THE London correspondent of the New York
World describes Lady Cook, nee Tennie G.
Claflin, as looking as grim, sedate and respecta
BILE as Roman matron. She has continues the
scribe, almost, the face of a religious rechlse
without the slightest expression of a woman of
the world. Her face is regular in its lines and
almost hard in its regularity Her ewes are a
cold, steely blue and are small. She looks to he
at least 10 years of age. Her light, sandy brown
hair is beginning to show gray She wore al Ions,
seal FUR mantle over dark green cloth dress
Her boots were of the stoutest thick soled Eng
llsh make. Her bonnet was a square uolv
brown, tied in grim lines in the most Puritani
cal of knots under her angular chin, The nosi
ton that Lady Cook occupies is a most con.
sentative one now upon all social questions
where she used to provoke so much discussion
and attention.
my parrot is 100 years old" said Erastus
Judd, living at COS Elm street. 81 have had him
for thirty years and my father had him about
forty years. old Putnam. as we call him, used
TO belong to my grandfather, Seth Judd who |
who lived at Shelbune Falls Mass The old |
gentlemen got him from a sailor In BOSTON |
have family letters dated in 1890 in which odd |
Putnam is referred TO as a prettie bird which |
hath beeu tnuRht IN saV "a fter ono ,,,,,oL l-'l